To accuse the JBS of having refused to "see" the Founders' first visions is, IMO, too short of a conclusion to the Article 5 debate today.
I'm willing to await the end of Trump's second term to see where the health of The Constitution lays.
“They all started lookin’ real suspicious at him
And he jumped up an’ said jes’ wait a minute Jim
You know he’s lyin’ I’ve been livin’ here all of my life”
“I’m a faithfull follower of Brother John Birch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church
And I ain’t even got a garage you can call home and ask my wife”
As the amendment process is part of the original Constitution, allowing for "tweaks" as we went along would sure seem like perfection.
What is it about our Constitution do you detest?
I’m inclined to be sympathetic to them, my mother was, but I know an individual who writes for them, articles he writes are thinly manipulative, he appears not to have a high estimate of the intelligence of his readers, and, besides, he treated his wife abysmally, using an excuse to get rid of her, in the context of their conservative community which doesn’t allow easy divorce. I’m sorry that Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld was associated with them, but because of that very fact, I have looked at askance at Dr. Blumenfeld’s work, in looking at the destructive work of John Dewey. https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3801837/posts
I’m probably older than the majority of Freepers and I’m not, nor have I ever been, a member of JBS. I did, however, end up on their mailing list back in the early 80s when I was stationed in Texas. I’ve always been a constitutional conservative, so I read their materials with some interest and a healthy dose of skepticism. Now, looking back on it, I have to admit that a LOT of the things JBS predicted 40 years ago have come to pass.
Our Constitution and our form of government is, in no way, perfect. It is, in my opinion, as close to perfect as anything man has yet done, but it’s incumbent upon those of us who actually give a $hit to defend it - and start by rolling back federal government overreach for things like “education.” As I’m sure someone else has said, the Department of Education has never educated anyone.